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| Hi guys. I'm using a VPN to visit Xanga today. Since Xanga remains almost impossible to visit (still blocked in China) I have made a new blog on a site that isn't blocked. At least not right now! Anyway, it is mostly about teaching English and learning Chinese, but if you are still interested in keeping up with me, you can look here: http://mouseneb.livejournal.com/
Meanwhile, here's a current picture of me:
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| Hello all. 好久不见! Long time no see.
Xanga is still blocked here in China (in fact a lot of things are due to an upcoming 20th anniversary of a fairly sensitive event involving a square in Beijing) but I managed to get on here through a proxy so here is a quick update on my life.
Erik and I have been working at a kindergarten teaching English since Feb. 2009. We teach there 10 hours a week and supplement our rather low income by teaching a few private classes and small classes at our house. Life is good, and we enjoy the kindergarten much more than our previous jobs working at Inter.
Our dingo Baozi is about a year and a half old, and he loves our new, 3 bedroom apartment on the 22nd floor. We love it too. We have a balcony, 2 bathrooms (one Western and one Chinese) and more cabinets than we know what to do with. Seriously, we have been living here since January and we still have empty cabinets.
We are trying not to accumulate too much "stuff" because we may be moving sometime in the next year across the country to a place called Urumuqi, in Xinjiang province. We would be working in a resort as managers. The project is still waiting for full funding, so we don't know when that will happen, but it is exciting and scary. We would be working with one of China's minority groups, the Uighers.
Ok, must go get ready for a student who will be here any moment, will try to update again soon! | | |
| Hello all. 好久不见! Long time no see.
Xanga is still blocked here in China (in fact a lot of things are due to an upcoming 20th anniversary of a fairly sensitive event involving a square in Beijing) but I managed to get on here through a proxy so here is a quick update on my life.
Erik and I have been working at a kindergarten teaching English since Feb. 2009. We teach there 10 hours a week and supplement our rather low income by teaching a few private classes and small classes at our house. Life is good, and we enjoy the kindergarten much more than our previous jobs working at Inter.
Our dingo Baozi is about a year and a half old, and he loves our new, 3 bedroom apartment on the 22nd floor. We love it too. We have a balcony, 2 bathrooms (one Western and one Chinese) and more cabinets than we know what to do with. Seriously, we have been living here since January and we still have empty cabinets.
We are trying not to accumulate too much "stuff" because we may be moving sometime in the next year across the country to a place called Urumuqi, in Xinjiang province. We would be working in a resort as managers. The project is still waiting for full funding, so we don't know when that will happen, but it is exciting and scary. We would be working with one of China's minority groups, the Uighers.
Ok, must go get ready for a student who will be here any moment, will try to update again soon! | | |
|  We made it to Ohio late last night after 36 hours of travel. Today I went with the girls for a mani/pedi and everybody is running everywhere doing last minute wedding things. The flowers have not arrived yet, and they were ordered from the internet, so much freaking out. Hopefully they will arrive soon or we just may have to send out raiding parties to all the local florists! Batchelorette party tonight! We shall see how awake I will be by then. | | |
|  Well, we fly to the US tomorrow for Erik's sister Brecka's wedding. Theoretically we fly to the US tomorrow. See, we purchased tickets to Shanghai on China Southern, and then from Shanghai we are supposed to have buddy passes on some Delta flights to get to Atlanta and finally Ohio. Flying on buddy passes means that we might not fly, if all the seats are sold we will have to wait for another flight with some empty seats, and that's always made me a little nervous, especially because if we miss too many flights we could miss the wedding entirely. Then this afternoon the phone rang and someone was telling us something in Chinese about our flight to Shanghai, the one with the purchased tickets, the only one I was thinking would for sure happen...turns out it is cancelled. So they wanted us to agree to take a flight later in the afternoon, but then we would miss the connection to Atlanta for sure. So we convinced them to put us on an earlier flight, with a different airline. They are delivering the new tickets to us at school tonight. (That's right, we still use paper tickets over here, and we had to pay in cash, the delivery guy doesn't accept credit.) Wheee! Cross your fingers and keep us in your thoughts! Here's hoping we make it, Brecka! | | |
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